Description

Generate a fake data set with covariates age, sex, and zip code.

Usage

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Arguments

n

The number of population units.

Details

This simulation is vaguely inspired by the French dataset on multiple
sclerosis prevalence (El Adssi et. al., 2012). It is used to create a
three-list capture-recapture system with unit-level independence between
lists. Capture probabilities are constant (for simplicity!) across lists,
but not across population units. The heterogeneity is a function of the
covariates: age, sex, and zip code. We code zip here as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’.

Value

pop

A data.frame containing the covariates and capture
histories associated with each observed unit.